Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup It appears to have been

It appears to have been hand-painted and additionally features very fine incising on each of the small "petals" that surround the repeating circular forms with black dots

6 1/4" tall (not including fringe) x 4" wide and in excellent

Carved from one piece of wood

This pair I believe dates to the 1960s

Chaloi Leonty, Painterly 1976 Oil on Cardboard Trees and Water Russian Landscape spice cup It appears to have beenI purchased a small painting by this same Soviet artist, Chaloi Leonty, several months ago, which was such a gem I went back to the seller in Russia to buy two more, larger in scale. I really love the big lush brushstrokes on this one a great interplay of loose vertical and horizonal gestures. Viewed up close, the painting pretty much completely dissolves into abstraction; it is only from some distance that it takes shape as a landscape, increasingly